Madness in Literature and Visual Culture : Critical Interventions.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

six, anna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness in literature.

Mental illness in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

A landmark study from a variety of cultural and academic perspectives, this book is a future-focused collection which examines key topics related to madness and culture from a selection of leading international scholars and practitioners.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: We, The Unquantifiable

Part I Experiences: Anxiety, Despair, Mania, Altered States

1 'Hangxiety' in Contemporary Spanish Feminist Graphic Autofictions

2 Shooting Dissolution: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things and the Politics of Despair

3 Cinemania: Madness and the Moving Image

4 Laughing with the Mad, Spectating the Sane: Comedy, Madness, and the Early Modern Stage

Part II Events: Trauma, Grief, Self-Harm, Suicide

5 A Tale of Two Traumatizing Mothers: Individual and Political Madness in Caryl Phillips's The Final Passage

6 Deaths by Shooting: Disenfranchised Grief and the Contemporary Elegy

7 Representations of Self-Harm in Performance and the Everyday: Towards New Contracts with the Skin

8 Playing with Suicide: Untimely Wanderings with Suicidality

Part III Environments: Asylums, Streets, Organizations, Atmospheres, Hospitals

9 Viewing Virtually: The Topographical Asylum Print

10 Madness and Female Role Performances on Stage: Kabuki and Mental Illness in Japan c.1600-c.1800

11 Organizational Madness

12 Diagnosed with 'Environmental Degradation': Health, Pollution, and Environmental Sexism in Safe

13 (Re) Making Space: Young People, Mental Health, and Scenographic Agency

Part IV Expertise: Diagnosis, Treatment, Therapy, Recovery, Resistance

14 Authenticity and Representations of Mental Health in Popular Visual Media: Schizophrenia, Dementia Praecox, and Hollywood, 1940-1960

15 Art as an Alternative Philosophy of Care in Mental Distress

16 Notes on Therapy

17 Stand-up Comedy as Recovery Narrative

18 Interview with Robert Whitaker

Part V Enfoldings: Families, Carers, Communities, Spirits.

19 When Madness Matters: The Limits and Affordances of Representing Madness in Contemporary Biopics of Historical Royal Women

20 Community Care Gothic: The Madness of Saint Maud

21 Less Ritalin and More Glitter: Re-shaping Recovery Through Carnival

22 Curating Madness: Suicidality and the Spirit in Between

Index

Copyright.

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ISBN:

9781350386907

OCLC:

1600523104